Are the file stores eating up all your resources and you don’t know which reports are causing it?

BI 4.1 SP7 Windows installation

Well you can analyze it via tools like TreeSize Free. A simple tool to order the files/folders by GB. You will see the analysis of your file store folder. The neat thing is you can drill trough the biggest folders into the file that is loaded with large sets of data. The problem is that you still know nothing, I explain in this blog how to know which document is linked with which file.

In the output file you will retrieve the instances and in the input file you’ll have your report/documents holding large sets of data.

FILESTORE:

OUTPUT instances of reports control them by setting limits in CMC

INPUT data of saved reports purge reportdata

The output files can be limited in the CMC and the input files should be purged.

But always check with the owners of the reports before handling!

But how do we know what is what?

Well by clicking through all the folders, you ‘ll find the file containing large sets of data. Right click on it select properties and copy the name.